Useful linux find command that developer should know

Working with Linux is fun when we can make the best use of Linux commands. Linux find command is very useful in case of finding things in real quick. But if we can provide the proper parameter to the find command, it becomes tedious to find things on Linux OS.

Following are some really useful find command:

$ find . -type f -name "index.html" -exec grep -il "portfolio" {} \;

$ find / -size 100M

$ find / -mtime +180 -size +1G

$ find / -type d -name "*name-of-the-direcotry*"

In Mac, the following command also works along with the above command
$ mdfind kind:folder "*name-of-the-directory*"

$ find / -type f -name "*name-of-the-file*"

In Mac, the following command also works along with the above command
$ mdfind -name file-name

$ find / -type f -name "*name-of-the-file*"

In Mac, the following command also works along with the above command
$ mdfind -name file-name

$ find . -type f -perm 0777 -print

$ find . -type f -perm 0777 -print

$ find . -type f -name "doc.txt" -exec rm -f {} \;